Author: Andrew CrichtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jacobite Rebellion, 1715
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
The Life and Diary of Lieut. Col. J. Blackader, of the Cameronian Regiment, and Deputy Governor of Stirling Castle, who Served with Distinguished Honour in the Wars Under King William and the Duke of Marlborough, and Afterwards in the Rebellion of 1715 in Scotland
Author: Andrew CrichtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jacobite Rebellion, 1715
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
The Quarterly Theological Review and Ecclesiastical Record
Author: Monthly Critical Gazette
Author: The Life and Diary
Author: John BlackadderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
The Monthly critical gazette
Author: Red Coat, Green Machine
Author: Charles KirkePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441162119
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
How different were the men who fought at Blenheim and at Goose Green? Is there a human thread that connects the redcoat of 300 years ago with the British soldier of today? What would they find in common if they faced a common foe? This book is about the people in the Army, and the very human interactions between them in their daily lives. It marries the disciplines of Social Anthropology and Military History to provide a novel way of looking at the anatomy of the British Army at unit level from an entirely human perspective. Concentrating on the attitudes, expectations, and concerns expressed by the people involved, it sets out a set of simple models of life at regimental duty that can be used to describe, analyze and explain their behaviour over the past 300 years. The book is grounded on what soldiers of all ranks have said, using the author's research interview material for the modern witnesses, and memoirs, diaries, and letters (published and unpublished) for earlier ones.
Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle
Author: The Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle
Author: Miscellaneous Catalogues
Author: Robert Buchanan (Publisher.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
Vauban under Siege
Author: Jamel OstwaldPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047411501
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
Winner of the 2009 Distinguished Book Award of the Society for Military History Vauban under Siege is the first systematic comparison of the theory of Vaubanian siegecraft with its reality. It places Vauban’s siege accomplishments back into their broader context, highlighting his continuation of the quest for ever-greater efficiency pursued by a century of military engineers. Based on a comprehensive inventory of sieges in the War of the Spanish Succession, it describes how both French and Allied military officers rejected this efficiency paradigm and embraced instead vigorous brute force tactics. Ignoring their over-worked and under-compensated engineers at key points, generals chose to save precious campaign time by sacrificing their soldiers’ lives in siege after siege. This early modern cult of the offensive has influenced the Western way of war ever since.